PERSPECTIVE STOPPING HAZARDS FROM BECOMING DISASTERS BY TOM BAGSARIAN Evan Reis is a structural engineer and executive director of the U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC). He works to promote resilient construction and improve the performance of infrastructure in natural disasters. Reis is a national leader in seismic risk management; he has pub-lished more than 50 papers and regularly presents to groups of building stake-holders. He cofounded the USRC in 2011 to educate building stakeholders about the gap between sustainability and true resilient design. He recently spoke with Ascent ® executive editor Tom Bagsarian about precast concrete and the current state of resilient construction. Top: Evan Reis. Photo: U.S. Resiliency Council. Left: The California State University Sacramento Parking Structure 5 has achieved the USRC Gold rating for resiliency. Clark Pacifi c supplied the precast concrete for the project, which won a 2019 PCI Design Award for Sustainable Design. Read more about it in the Summer 2019 issue of Ascent . Photo: Kyle Jeff ers, courtesy of Dreyfuss+Blackford Architecture.
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